"Thank Heaven. A Buddhist priest of Nembutsu say that we can be beatified by advocating Nam-Amidabutsu."

"Amitabha Tathagata, please help us. We do not have a method to solve recent famine and epidemic. We cannot live without help of Amitabha. We are dead after this and only wait for Buddhists' paradise."

The Buddhist priest takes the farmer's hand and talks to him.

"It is a truly good mind, it is what it fulfills the teachings of the Buddha.If you chant only Amida Buddha, the desire to be born in Pure Land will be fulfilled. "

Rencho walks that side.

The Nembutsu sect is also called Pure Land sect.

Nembutsu that Honen began spread among the common people in Japan intensely. A extremely simple teachings that person could go to the Buddhists' paradise for if he chanted Nam-Amida-Buddha caught the mind of the then people who panted in the difficult situations such as famine, the epidemic. The expanse of this Nembutsu began since the era of Retire Emperor Gotoba just 50 years ago. Because it was too popular, even a learned and virtuous priest of Enryakuji Temple of the head temple of the Tendai chanted Nembutsu.

Rencho goes ahead through the road to the east more.

He intended to go to Kamakura of the capital of the samurai on the way to the hometown.

It is said that it took 12 days from Kyoto to Kamakura in those days. How much days would he need from Mt. Hiei-zan to Awa? It is thought to take at least 15 days.

Fuji covered with snow far far away appeared.

The then people had reverence towards Mount Fuji than modern people thought.

It is being written down with "the Record of the Sea and the Road" that is an account of a trip of the Kamakura era.

"Mount Fuji rises in the middle of the sky and surpasses it from the mountains of every direction like I heard it at the capital. The top of the mountain is the road which a bird crosses, and the foot of the mountain is the road which the beast goes along. Snow wraps up the top of the mountain with a white color like a hood. In addition, a long cloud like a bellyband surrounds the middle of the mountain. The height seem to build a ladder over the heaven, and the person to climb comes back without being able to finish climbing it. The foot of the mountain is wide as walking for days to go around , and the person walking there goes as if carrying a mountain on his back. A hot spring springs out on the mountaintop, and thin smoke goes up subtly, and a cold pond is full of water in the middle of the mountain, and a flow to overflow becomes the river. This is a solemn mountain which we cannot compare in really many mountains.”